Howitt Aesops Fables Watercolor of Bears and Bees
HOWITT, Samuel (1756/57–1822).
A Bear and Bees: "It is foolish to avenge one injury by making many enemies."
Original watercolor created for "A New Work of Animals; Principally designed from the Fables of Aesop, Gay and Phaedrus".
Drawings in pen, brown ink and wash with watercolor over pencil. London, 1808.
12 3/4" x 9" sheet; 20 1/4" x 24 1/4" framed.
A superb original watercolor illustrting Aesop's Fabels by Samuel Howitt, the most celebrated 18th-century British artsit of sporting scenes.
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HOWITT, Samuel (1756/57–1822).
A Bear and Bees: "It is foolish to avenge one injury by making many enemies."
Original watercolor created for "A New Work of Animals; Principally designed from the Fables of Aesop, Gay and Phaedrus".
Drawings in pen, brown ink and wash with watercolor over pencil. London, 1808.
12 3/4" x 9" sheet; 20 1/4" x 24 1/4" framed.
A superb original watercolor illustrting Aesop's Fabels by Samuel Howitt, the most celebrated 18th-century British artsit of sporting scenes.
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